CORONATION DAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 April 1937, Page 5

CORONATION DAY

THE ROYAL PROCESSION dominion troops to head on | RETURN TO PALACE I EIGHT GREYS FOR STATE COACH [United Press Association—li.v Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 28h April, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, 27th April. Their Majesties will leave the Palace on Coronation Day at 10.30 a.m., and the Royal Coach is expected to leave the Abbey at 2.15 p.m. Dominion troops will head the procession on the return to the palace at 3.50 p.m. Preceding Their Majesties to the Abbey will be the Lord Mayor’s and the Speaker’s procession, also certain members of the Royal Family and representatives of foreign powers, after which will be eleven carriages, containing Prime Ministers, in this order. Mr Stanley Baldwin (Britain), escorted by mounted police, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King (Canada), escorted by the Canadian Mounted Police; Mr J. A. Lyons (Australia), Mr M. J. Savage (New Zealand) and General Hertzog (South Africa) escorted by their own mounted troops. After them will be representatives of India, Burma, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Ireland, the Sultan’s of Johore, Zanzibar and other sultans, and Emir Abdullah of Transjordania. Next will come the carriage procession of the Royal Family and finally the Royal Coach, headed by detachments of the armed forces, general | officers commanding, members of the | Air and Army Councils, an Admiralty escort, officers from the Dominion and Colonial contingents, Yeomen of the Guard, and aides.

The State Coach will be drawn by eight greys escorted by Field-Marshal the Earl of Cavan, the Duke of Beaufort (Master of the Horse) and FieldMarshal Sir William Birdwood, after which will be the Royal Standard, the Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Kent, the King’s entourage, and the Sovereign’s entourage.

Royal salutes of 41 and 62 guns will be fired at St. James’s Park tower at the moment cf the Coronation.

AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT

VISIT TO SCOTLAND BIG PROGRAMME ARRANGED LONDON, 27th April. The Australian troops are entraining at Euston on Ist May for Edinburgh, where they will become the guests of the Lord Provost on their arrival. The programme includes tours of border districts, theatres, a civic luncheon and a march through the streets on 3rd May, returning To Pirbright on 4th May. The leaders of the contingent have decided that ex-servicemen will have an opportunity of going to France, and planning a tour of war graves, possibly after the Coronation. LENGTH OF CEREMONY ABOUT 2J HOURS LONDON, 26th April. Hitherto it has been assumed that the Coronation ceremony will last three hours, but it is now announced that it will commence at 11.0 a.m. and end about 1.30 p.m.

PROGRAMMES FOR HOSPITAL ' PATIENTS

GENEROSITY OF PRIVATE DONOR (Received 28th April, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, 27th April. Presiding at a luncheon at St. James’s Palace, at which 150 guests who have been associated with the production of the Coronation programme on behalf of King George’s Jubilee Trust, to which the preparation and publication of the programme was entrusted by the King and to whose funds the proceeds of the sale will go, the Duke of Gloucester mentioned that through the generosity of a private donor, a copy of the programme would be in the hand of every patient in every voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom on Coronation Day

BIRTHPLACE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH (Received 28th April, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, 27th April. The Coronation of the King and Queen will have a special interest foi the little village of St. Paul’s Wilden, in Hertfordshire, where at the Manor House, the former home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, Queen Elizabeth was born. The Queen’s brother, Mr David Lyon is the present occupant of .the and on Coronation Day, villagers whose houses lie close to its gates, will be his guests at festivities, which will conclude with a dance around a bonfire.